Centre-left Democratic Party (PD)
leader Elly Schlein on Saturday reiterated her party's position
that a government bill paving the way for the direct election of
the premier by the Italian people is "dangerous" and said that
the PD would use every available dialectical tool to oppose it
in parliament.
The constitutional reform bill "weakens parliament and the
prerogatives of the President of the Republic", said Schlein,
describing it as "a distortion of the Constitution and the
parliamentary Republic".
"We will use every available dialectical tool in parliament to
oppose a project that we consider to be dangerous," she
continued.
Schlein said she would discuss the issue with the other
opposition parties.
The government approved the planned Constitutional reform on
Friday and Premier Giorgia Meloni afterwards described it in a
press conference as the "mother of all reforms".
Under the current system, parties engage in government-formation
talks after a general election and then the coalition that forms
a ruling majority in parliament agrees on a figure to propose to
the President of the Republic to become premier.
That figure is not necessarily one of the politicians given by
the parties as their premier candidate during the election
campaign.
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